In Maryam Keshavarz’s Sundance Audience Award winner The Persian Version, the choices, traumas and joys of multiple Iranian and Iranian American women are traced through a single bloodline. For the ...

In Part 2 of our journey through Iranian tea culture, we take a closer look at the unique customs of preparing, serving, and enjoying tea in Iran. From the proper way to pour to how guests are honored ...

Hoss Zare was 22 when his father urged him to leave Iran. It was 1985 and the effects of the Islamic Revolution were still ravaging the country. Zare had survived the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War, ...

President Donald Trump threatened to target Iranian cultural sites if the country retaliates in the wake of the U.S. drone strike that killed top military leader Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Although other ...

NEW YORK-- Thousands of people took to the streets of Midtown on Sunday to highlight their Persian culture and temporarily take their minds off the tensions in the Middle East. A sea of red filled ...

The Persian tradition of marking the winter solstice is a celebration of light and goodness. On the longest night of this year, Dec. 21, open the door to a Persian home, and you’ll see the vibrant ...

It comes as an enormous relief that the Pentagon has ruled out following through with President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s cultural sites, acknowledging that to attack heritage sites with ...

The College of Liberal Arts and the City of Reno invite you to the first Iranian Culture Celebration Event at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Thursday, April 18, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Knowledge ...

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to target Iran’s rich array of cultural and heritage sites in his standoff with Tehran after the killing of a top Iranian commander last week.

The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) and the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lahore on Wednesday took steps toward ...

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about “what’s needed.” —Rumi Western culture may trace the spiritual origins of ...

Ahead of The Persian Version ‘s wide theatrical release on Nov. 2, Keshavarz spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about portraying the complicated generational relationships among one family’s women, ...